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Victoria plans to have more than 3,500 megawatts of wind power installed by 2011.

This means it will need to install more than 2,500 megawatts between now and 2011.

Here is the graph from Sustainability Victoria which displays their agenda for wind.

There is currently about 1,200 MW of capacity currently installed or being built. To get to 3.5GW of installed capacity means that there are about 1,500 turbines being built across Victoria in the next 3 years.

Keep an eye on your back yard, we are all about to become NIMBYs.

Large Scale Turbine Facilites are expensive and provide very little benefit to the grid. For each megawatt of contributed power, wind turbines earn more than 4 times as much as stationary generation.

And the consumer will pay for this experiment through higher prices as they are finding in Denmark, Germany and throughout Europe.

South Australia has imposed licensing conditions on turbine installations which specifically address their impacts on power security and downstream costs. Victoria and the Commonwealth have not. We need a federal licensing standard immediately to eliminate the perversions in the turbine market.

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DAVID McLAREN

|203.134.52.xxx |2008-09-07 09:16:04

Simon
The intended further proliferation of wind turbines throughout Victoria
is of great concern.
Your efforts to question the the benefits of wind energy,
lift the profile of this issue and educate those who are interested, in some of
the incorrect information put forward by wind farm promoters & the government as
to the supposed 'benefits' of wind energy,is to be commended.
Keep up the
pressure.

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admin

|192.168.0.xxx |2008-09-10 20:23:57

You are welcome David, this is an important issue to get right as these
facilities will outlive us.
If they are not the right thing to do, they will
stifle more beneficial developments and leave us all poorer for the experience.

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